Entangled Life Illustrated: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$75.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before'. Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer'. Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an adventur ...Show more
The Ethnobotanical - A World Tour of Indigenous Plant Knowledge by Sarah Edwards
$75.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
Since the beginning of humanity's existence, plants have provided us with everything we need for our survival - they sustain us with air to breathe, food to eat, materials to make clothes and shelter with, and medicine to treat and prevent disease. Their beauty can also enhance our mood and provide spi ...Show more
Fishes of Aotearoa by Paul Caiger
$80.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
With such a long coastline, and countless rivers and lakes, New Zealand truly is an aquatic nation, home to a bounty of colourful and characterful fishes. Fishes of Aotearoa, is a major celebration of this fish life, set to the backdrop of all our primary underwater habitats, from freshwater rivers, lak ...Show more
Mythos: The stunningly iIllustrated story by Stephen Fry
$95.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
Doll's Houses by Halina Pasierbska
$47.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
A fantastic opportunity to get up close with one of the world's best collections of dollhousesThis beautifully illustrated revised edition celebrates some of the best-loved dollhouses from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Dolls' Houses presents specially commissioned photography ...Show more
Tatau: Samoan Tattoo, New Zealand Art, Global Culture by Sean Mallon
$80.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
When Tatau was first published in 2010, Mark Adams' renowned images documenting a great Polynesian art tradition were a revelation. It told the story of the late Sulu'ape Paulo II, the pre-eminent figure of modern Samoan tattooing. A brilliantly innovative and often controversial man, he saw tatau as an ...Show more
He Tau Makuru: 50 Years of Te Matatini National Kapa Haka Festival by Max Matenga, Moana Aroha Henry, Ruth Smith, David Jones, Wi Pere Mita, Amokura Panoho, Wenarata Tait-Kingi
$70.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
"Mā tini, mā mano ka rangatira a kapa haka" Kapa haka flourishes through the efforts of many. Embrace the joy and wonder that is kapa haka through the experiences, people and triumphs of the past 24 festivals, and relive memories that will stir, ignite and uplift the soul. He Tau Makuru: 50 Years of Te ...Show more
More Retro Caravans by Don Jessen
$50.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
The retro caravan craze continues at an ever-increasing rate with more wonderful restorations hitting the road every year and younger families now joining the movement. Caravans from the 1920s to the 1980s are being restored and used to recapture the long hazy days of summer that many of us remember so ...Show more
Mauri Ora: Wisdom from the Maori World by Peter Alsop & Te Rau Kupenga
$40.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
Pearls of wisdom – whakataukī – have been gifted from generation to generation as an intrinsic part of the Māori world. As powerful metaphors, they combine analogy and cultural history in the most economical of words. Short and insightful, they take you by surprise, engendering reflection, learning and ...Show more
CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion by Sunita Kumar Nair
$120.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
Long blonde hair, an iconic red lip, and effortless style--all signatures of fashion icon Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Carolyn used fashion as her medium. She hadn't found her voice yet in front of the camera as Mrs. Kennedy, so she let her fashion speak to the world for her. With her attention to detail, ...Show more
100 Letters That Changed the World by Colin Salter
$45.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
A collection of the most inspiring and powerful letters of all time. The written word has the power to inspire, astonish and entertain, as this collection of 100 letters that changed history will show. Ordered chronologically, the letters range from ink-inscribed tablets that vividly describe life in t ...Show more
Station - A Whistlestop Tour of 20th- and 21st-Century Railway Architecture by Christopher Beanland
$50.00 NZD
Category: Coffee-table books
A glorious celebration of modern railway architecture in the 20th century and beyond, travelling all over the world. Many railway books are about nostalgia for the steam age, but this one is different: a global study of railway architecture from the 1950s onwards and into the future. In 50 fascinatin ...Show more